hi all! this is a trick for those who plan to implement sendmail+spamassasin+mimedefang. on SLES10
it took me more than four (4) days to figure out the problem and required more brain power and good old plain common sense to have it working. if you happen to have a similar problem on connecting to your hostname both from the localmachine and remote. while issuing the command: $ telnet some-hostname 25 Trying some-hostname...... telnet: connect to some-hostname: Connection refused. this means that if you issue the command netstat -ant | grep :25 and you have an output that listens only to 127.0.0.1:25 googling a bit will point you to materials that tells you how to allow sendmail to listen to multiple ip by editing the sendmai.mc file and using m4 sendmail.cm > /etc/<where-your-sendmail.cfresides> but still get the same result. then you need to edit a key file on SLES10 rc script! here is how its done on SLES boxes: vi /etc/init.d/rc3.d/<some-prefix-sendmail> locate the: SENDMAIL_ARGS="-O DaemonPortOptons=Addr=127.0.0.1$SENDMAIL_ARGS" change it to: SENDMAIL_ARGS="-O DaemonPortOptons= $SENDMAIL_ARGS" restart the rc-script # ./<some-prefix-sendmail> restart issue the command # netstat -ant | grep :25 voila.....now you are in business 0.0.0.0:25 with Debian and Ubuntu this is not an issue....in any case Debian for me shines..... cheers! -- Ronald Allan V. Tomimbang Computer Center Administration / Unix Office of Information Systems and Technology Asian Development Bank email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mobile: 0922-8158229
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